Pro­ject press release

In the spi­rit of the ener­gy tran­si­ti­on, the TU Ilmen­au is deve­lo­ping a resour­ce-effi­ci­ent ener­gy dis­tri­bu­ti­on net­work for Ger­ma­ny.

Such a power grid, based on direct cur­rent tech­no­lo­gy, will be spe­ci­fi­cal­ly tail­o­red to the incre­asing use of rene­wa­ble ener­gy gene­ra­ted by a lar­ge num­ber of decen­tra­li­zed plants and will offer much hig­her ope­ra­tio­nal relia­bi­li­ty than the cur­rent grid. The six-year rese­arch pro­ject “Dis­tri­bu­ti­on Net­work DC Tech­no­lo­gy (VERNEDCT)”, which is fun­ded by the Carl Zeiss Foun­da­ti­on with almost five mil­li­on euros as part of the “Breakth­roughs” pro­gram, will start in July next year.

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